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Tuesday 13 April 2021

A gold nose pin, boxes of eggs, or a tax rebate: Covid vaccine incentives around the world

Members of the public are being offered gifts and discounts to encourage vaccine take-up

There isn’t much to like about having a needle stuck into your arm, so to encourage vaccinations, some countries are offering incentives to sweeten the deal. In one Indian city, residents are being offered a gold nose pin or a stick blender if they get a shot, while in China, not one but two boxes of eggs await responsible citizens.

“The eggs don’t matter,” one Beijing resident – a woman in her 60s – told the South China Morning Post. She was queueing for her vaccination because authorities kept asking her to get the vaccine, not for the protein.

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